Recent Books

The following table shows the books I've recently read or acquired. At the moment the title link points to the Powell’s page for the book, but at some point I'll have it take you to a full description of the book.

The main purpose of this page is to exercise my PostgreSQL database that I built from a Bookpedia export file. I really dig Bookpedia, but it's OS X only, and because it's closed source, I worry about all my book data being lost if I abandon OS X or if the developers abandon the program.

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Title	Copyright	Author	Publisher	Pages	Last Read	Purchased
Swamplandia!	2011	Karen Russell	Knopf	336	Mar-2011	Feb-2011
City of Refuge	2008	Tom Piazza	Harper	416	Apr-2011	Nov-2010
A Visit from the Goon Squad	2010	Jennifer Egan	Anchor	352	Apr-2011	Apr-2011
Piercing	2007	Ryu Murakami	Penguin (Non-Classics)	192	Apr-2011	Apr-2011
McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, Issue 37	2011	Dave Eggers	McSweeney's	256	May-2011	May-2011
A Moment in the Sun	2011	John Sayles	McSweeney's	968	Jun-2011	May-2011
The Passage	2010	Justin Cronin	Ballantine Books	766	Jun-2011	Jun-2011
East Is East	1990	T.C. Boyle	Penguin (Non-Classics)	384	Jul-2011	Jul-2010
Shoplifting from American Apparel	2009	Tao Lin	Melville House	112	Jul-2011	Jul-2010
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest	2010	Stieg Larsson	Knopf	576	Jul-2011	Jul-2011
A Wild Sheep Chase	1982	Haruki Murakami	Vintage	353	Jul-2011	Jul-2011
South of the Border, West of the Sun	1992	Haruki Murakami	Vintage	224	Jul-2011	Jul-2011
Sputnik Sweetheart	1999	Haruki Murakami	Vintage	224	Jul-2011	Jul-2011
After Dark	2004	Haruki Murakami	Vintage	256	Jul-2011	Jul-2011
The Magicians	2009	Lev Grossman	Plume	416	Aug-2011	Aug-2010
Next	2010	James Hynes	Reagan Arthur / Back Bay Books	336	Aug-2011	Aug-2011
The Accidental	2007	Ali Smith	Anchor	320	Aug-2011	Aug-2011
McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, Issue 38	2011	Dave Eggers	McSweeney's	253	Sep-2011	Aug-2011
The Magician King	2011	Lev Grossman	Viking Adult	416	Sep-2011	Aug-2011
The Art of Fielding	2011	Chad Harbach	Little, Brown and Company	528	Sep-2011	Sep-2011
Death and the Penguin	2010	Andrey Kurkov	Melville House	240	Oct-2011	Aug-2011
Kapitoil	2010	Teddy Wayne	Harper Perennial	295	Oct-2011	Aug-2011
The Visible Man	2011	Chuck Klosterman	Scribner	240	Oct-2011	Oct-2011
1Q84	2011	Haruki Murakami	Knopf	944	Nov-2011	Oct-2011
The Lovers	2010	Vendela Vida	Ecco	240	Nov-2011	Oct-2011
Train Dreams	2011	Denis Johnson	Farrar, Straus and Giroux	128	Nov-2011	Nov-2011
11/22/63	2011	Stephen King	Scribner	849	Nov-2011	Nov-2011
Reamde	2011	Neal Stephenson	William Morrow	1,056	Nov-2011	Nov-2011
Beat the Reaper	2009	Josh Bazell	Little, Brown and Company	320	Dec-2011	Dec-2011
Await Your Reply	2009	Dan Chaon	Ballantine Books	324	Dec-2011	Dec-2011
Open City	2011	Teju Cole	Random House	272	Dec-2011	Dec-2011
The Sisters Brothers	2011	Patrick deWitt	Ecco	336	Dec-2011	Dec-2011
The Last Werewolf	2011	Glen Duncan	Knopf	304	Dec-2011	Dec-2011
McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, Issue 39	2011	Dave Eggers	McSweeney's	300	Dec-2011	Dec-2011
The Marriage Plot	2011	Jeffrey Eugenides	Farrar, Straus and Giroux	416	Dec-2011	Dec-2011
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close	2005	Jonathan Safran Foer	Houghton Mifflin Harcourt	368	Dec-2011	Dec-2011
Ten Thousand Saints	2011	Eleanor Henderson	Ecco	400	Dec-2011	Dec-2011
Lowboy	2009	John Wray	Farrar, Straus and Giroux	272	Dec-2011	Dec-2011
The Sense of an Ending	2011	Julian Barnes	Random House Canada	160	Jan-2012	Jan-2012
Lightning Rods	2011	Helen DeWitt	New Directions	192	Jan-2012	Jan-2012
State of Wonder	2011	Ann Patchett	Harper	368	Jan-2012	Jan-2012
The Devil All the Time	2011	Donald Ray Pollock	Doubleday	272	Jan-2012	Jan-2012
Green Girl	2011	Kate Zambreno	Emergency Press	268	Jan-2012	Jan-2012
Salvage the Bones	2011	Jesmyn Ward	Bloomsbury USA	272	Feb-2012	Jan-2012
The Last Brother	2011	Nathacha Appanah	Graywolf Press	208	Feb-2012	Feb-2012
The Cat's Table	2011	Michael Ondaatje	Knopf	288	Feb-2012	Feb-2012
The Tiger's Wife	2011	Téa Obreht	Random House	352	Mar-2012	Feb-2012
When the Killing's Done	2011	T.C. Boyle	Viking Adult	384	Mar-2012	Mar-2012
Flatscreen	2012	Adam Wilson	Harper Perennial	336	Mar-2012	Mar-2012
Arcadia	2012	Lauren Groff	Voice	304	Apr-2012	Mar-2012
The Snow Child	2012	Eowyn Ivey	Reagan Arthur Books	400	Apr-2012	Apr-2012
Start Shooting	2012	Charlie Newton	Doubleday	320	Apr-2012	Apr-2012
Wild	2012	Cheryl Strayed	Knopf	336	Apr-2012	Apr-2012
Angelmaker	2012	Nick Harkaway	Knopf	496	May-2012	Apr-2012
The Newlyweds	2012	Nell Freudenberger	Knopf	352	May-2012	May-2012
I Suck at Girls	2012	Justin Halpern	It Books	192	May-2012	May-2012
Bring Up the Bodies	2012	Hilary Mantel	Henry Holt and Co.	432	May-2012	May-2012
Life After Life	2013	Kate Atkinson	Reagan Arthur Books	544	May-2012	May-2012
A Game of Thrones	1996	George R.R. Martin	Bantam	720	Jun-2012	May-2012
How to Sharpen Pencils	2012	David Rees	Melville House	224	Jun-2012	Jun-2012
A Clash of Kings	1999	George R.R. Martin	Bantam	768	Jul-2012	Jun-2012
Gone Girl	2012	Gillian Flynn	Crown	432	Jul-2012	Jul-2012
Canada	2012	Richard Ford	Ecco	432	Jul-2012	Jul-2012
A Hologram for the King	2012	Dave Eggers	McSweeney's	328	Aug-2012
A Naked Singularity	2008	Sergio De La Pava	Xlibris Corporation	692	Aug-2012	Dec-2010
Cloud Atlas	2004	David Mitchell	Random House	528	Sep-2012	Jan-2007
My Struggle	2009	Karl Knausgaard	Archipelago Books	250	Sep-2012	Aug-2012
This Is How You Lose Her	2012	Junot Díaz	Riverhead Hardcover	224	Sep-2012	Sep-2012
Beautiful Ruins	2012	Jess Walter	Harper	352	Sep-2012	Sep-2012
Telegraph Avenue	2012	Michael Chabon	Harper	480	Oct-2012	Sep-2012
The Twelve	2012	Justin Cronin	Ballantine Books	592	Oct-2012	Oct-2012
The Round House	2012	Louise Erdrich	Harper	336	Nov-2012	Oct-2012
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk	2012	Ben Fountain	Ecco	320	Nov-2012	Nov-2012
May We Be Forgiven	2012	A. M. Homes	Viking Adult	496	Nov-2012	Nov-2012
The Fault in Our Stars	2012	John Green	Dutton Children's	328	Dec-2012	Dec-2012
How Should a Person Be?	2012	Sheila Heti	Henry Holt and Co.	320	Dec-2012	Dec-2012
Building Stories	2012	Chris Ware	Pantheon	300	Dec-2012	Dec-2012
HHhH	2010	Laurent Binet	Farrar, Straus and Giroux	336	Jan-2013	Dec-2012
The Orphan Master's Son	2012	Adam Johnson	Random House	464	Jan-2013	Dec-2012
The Song of Achilles	2012	Madeline Miller	Ecco	384	Jan-2013	Dec-2012
Fobbit	2012	David Abrams	Grove Press, Black Cat	384	Jan-2013	Jan-2013
Magnificence	2012	Lydia Millet	W. W. Norton & Company	256	Jan-2013	Jan-2013
The Yellow Birds	2012	Kevin Powers	Little, Brown and Company	240	Jan-2013	Jan-2013
Where'd You Go, Bernadette	2012	Maria Semple	Little, Brown and Company	336	Jan-2013	Jan-2013
Drop City	2003	T.C. Boyle	Penguin (Non-Classics)	512	Feb-2013	May-2010
Wise Men	2013	Stuart Nadler	Reagan Arthur Books	352	Feb-2013	Feb-2013
Storm of Swords	2003	George R. R. Martin	Perfection Learning	1,216	Mar-2013	Mar-2013
My Struggle: Book Two	2013	Karl Ove Knausgaard	Archipelago	375	May-2013	May-2013
The Ocean at the End of the Lane	2013	Neil Gaiman	William Morrow	192	Jul-2013	Jul-2013
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running	2007	Haruki Murakami	Knopf	175	Jul-2013	Feb-2009
The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P.	2013	Adelle Waldman	Henry Holt and Co.	256	Jul-2013	Jul-2013
The Circle	2013	Dave Eggers	Knopf	504	Nov-2013	Nov-2013
Night Film	2013	Marisha Pessl	Random House	624	Dec-2013	Dec-2012
A Tale for the Time Being	2013	Ruth Ozeki	Viking Adult	432	Jan-2014	Nov-2013
The Flamethrowers	2013	Rachel Kushner	Scribner	400	Jan-2014	Jan-2014
Woke Up Lonely	2014	Fiona Maazel	Graywolf Press	336	Jan-2014	Jan-2014
Tampa	2013	Alissa Nutting	Ecco	272	Jan-2014	Jan-2014
Hill William	2013	Scott McClanahan	Tyrant Books	200	Feb-2014	Feb-2014
The People in the Trees	2013	Hanya Yanagihara	Doubleday	384	Feb-2014	Feb-2014
Bad Teeth	2014	Dustin Long	New Harvest	320	Apr-2014	Mar-2014
My Struggle	2014	Karl Ove Knausgaard	Archipelago	432	Apr-2014	May-2014
Another Great Day at Sea	2014	Geoff Dyer	Pantheon	208	Apr-2014	May-2014
The Unthinkable	2009	Amanda Ripley	Harmony	288	Aug-2014	Jul-2014
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage	2014	Haruki Murakami	Knopf	400	Aug-2014	Aug-2014
The Bone Clocks	2014	David Mitchell	Random House	640	Sep-2014	Sep-2014
The Magician's Land	2014	Lev Grossman	Viking	416	Sep-2014	Sep-2014
Dark Places	2009	Gillian Flynn	Broadway Books	349	Nov-2014	Nov-2014
The Leftovers	2011	Tom Perrotta	St. Martin's Griffin	384	Nov-2014	Nov-2014
The Luminaries	2013	Eleanor Catton	Little, Brown and Company	848	Jan-2015	Feb-2014
Station Eleven	2014	Emily St. John Mandel	Knopf	352	Jan-2015	Jan-2015
Annihilation	2014	Jeff Vandermeer	Farrar	208	Jan-2015	Jan-2015
Silence Once Begun	2014	Jesse Ball	Pantheon	256	Feb-2015	Feb-2015
Dept of Speculation	2014	Jenny Offill	Knopf	192	Feb-2015	Feb-2015
All the Birds, Singing	2014	Evie Wyld	Vintage	240	Mar-2015	Mar-2015
Everything I Never Told You	2014	Celeste Ng	Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated	304	Mar-2015	Mar-2015
An Untamed State	2014	Roxane Gay	Black Cat	386	Mar-2015	Mar-2015
The Good Lord Bird	2014	James McBride	Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated	432	Mar-2015	Mar-2015
Find Me	2015	Laura van den Berg	Farrar	288	Mar-2015	Mar-2015
My Struggle	2015	Karl Ove Knausgaard	Archipelago Books	350	Apr-2015	Apr-2015
A Little Life	2015	Hanya Yanagihara	Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group	728	Apr-2015	Mar-2015
Against Football	2014	Steve Almond	Melville House	192	Sep-2015	Sep-2015
Undermajordomo Minor	2015	Patrick Dewitt	Ecco	336	Sep-2015	Sep-2015
Going Clear	2013	Lawrence Wright	Vintage Books	448	Oct-2015	Sep-2015
Purity	2015	Jonathan Franzen	Farrar	576	Oct-2015	Oct-2015
Delicious Foods	2015	James Hannaham	Little	367	Nov-2015	Apr-2015
Fates and Furies	2015	Lauren Groff	Riverhead Books	400	Nov-2015	Nov-2015
Not on Fire, but Burning	2015	Greg Hrbek	Melville House	275	Nov-2015	Nov-2015
Sweetland	2015	Michael Crummey	Liveright Publishing Corporation	336	Nov-2015	Nov-2015
Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates	2015	Brian Kilmeade	Sentinel	256	Jan-2016	Dec-2015
Lights out	2015	Ted Koppel	Crown Publishers	288	Jan-2016	Dec-2015
Our Souls at Night	2015	Kent Haruf	Alfred A. Knopf, New York	192	Feb-2016	Feb-2016
The Story of My Teeth	2015	Valeria Luiselli	Coffee House Press	182	Feb-2016	Feb-2016
The Book of Aron	2015	Jim Shepard	Alfred A Knopf	272	Feb-2016	Feb-2016
American Rust	2009	Philipp Meyer	Spiegel & Grau	400	Mar-2016	Jan-2011
The Tsar of Love and Techno	2015	Anthony Marra	Hogarth	352	Mar-2016	Mar-2016
Unread
The Official Bar Guide to Darts	2010	Patrick Chaplin	Puzzlewright	192		Feb-2011
A Guide to the Birds of East Africa	2008	Nicholas Drayson	Mariner Books	208		Feb-2011
Finding Mars	2011	Ned Rozell	University of Alaska Press	256		Feb-2011
The Pale King	2011	David Foster Wallace	Little, Brown and Company	560		Apr-2011
The Screwtape Letters	1942	C. S. Lewis	HarperOne	209		May-2011
A Dog's Purpose	2010	W. Bruce Cameron	Forge Books	336		Jun-2011
The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake	2010	Aimee Bender	Anchor	304		Jul-2011
Holiday in a Coma & Love Lasts Three Years	1997	Frédéric Beigbeder	Harper Perennial	300		Aug-2011
The Boy Detective Fails	2006	Joe Meno	Akashic Books	328		Aug-2011
The Athlete's Palate Cookbook	2010	Yishane Lee	Rodale Books	224		Oct-2011
Rob Neyer's Big Book of Baseball Lineups	2003	Rob Neyer	Touchstone	352		Oct-2011
Mark Bittman's Kitchen Express	2011	Mark Bittman	Simon & Schuster	240		Jan-2012
Canning for a New Generation	2010	Liana Krissoff	Stewart, Tabori & Chang	304		Jun-2012
The Control of Nature	1989	John Mcphee	Farrar, Straus and Giroux	288		Jul-2012
Devices and Desires	2007	K. J. Parker	Orbit	672		Jul-2012
A Feast for Crows	2007	George R.R. Martin	Bantam	784		Nov-2012
Ivyland	2012	Miles Klee	OR Books	250		Dec-2012
The Patrick Melrose Novels		Edward St. Aubyn	Picador	688		Feb-2013
Bleeding Edge	2013	Thomas Pynchon	Penguin Books	496		Sep-2014
A Brave Man Seven Storeys Tall	2014	Will Chancellor	Harper	384		Jan-2015
The Paying Guests	2014	Sarah Waters	Riverhead Books	576		Feb-2015
Book of Numbers	2015	Joshua Cohen	Random House Publishing Group	592		Jul-2015
Mort(e)	2015	Robert Repino	Soho Press	368		Dec-2015

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